Stories for liberal religious kids, drawn from a wide variety of religious and spiritual traditions.
The stories below were originally written for a variety of purposes — worship services, classes, or just for fun. The links below go to a huge collection of stories on my sermon blog.
Daoist, Confucian, and East Asian Tales
Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Tales
Tales from Africa and the African Diaspora
Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, and Jain Tales
American Indigenous Tales
Unitarian Universalist Tales
Ancient Greek and Roman Tales
Links to stories I've used in UU religious education settings. Many of these were written by UU authors. I maintain this list for myself, and it's by no means comprehensive. I check for dead links regularly, but can't promise that every link remains live.
From Long Ago and Many Lands by Sophia Lyon Fahs, PDF of the classic UU collection of stories.
Jataka Tales and More Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbit (1912, 1922), folk tales from the Buddhist tradition giving accounts of Buddha's previous lives.
The Indian Story Book: Containing Tales from the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and Other Early Sources by Richard Wilson (1914), lengthy stories from India.
The old Tapestry of Faith curriculum series from the UUA included some 450 stories, some of which were excellent. This curriculum series is now deprecated, and it is increasingly difficult to search for the stories that were contained in the curriculum.
The Church of the Larger Fellowship has deprecated the old Between Sundays stories (curated by Betsy Hill Williams), and sadly none of them is now available online.
